[OLPC library] wikimedia parser

[SJ Klein]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Seth Woodworth wrote:

>> 2. Consistent style.  I have not figure this part out yet.  Is there a
>> web guru out there who could create some style sheet so all of the
>> content would be rendered consistently?

Some of this is underway (thanks, Diane!).  We should update a section of 
the [[style guide]] that reflects how colors are chosen for Sugar, with 
guidelines for choosing them for activities and bundles.  Similarly every 
bundle should indicate its sources and authors in a visible way, not just 
in the metadata.

>> 4.  Collections of collection.  How do you handle the integeration of
>> collections?  For example, if a child installs content bundles that
>> contain wikipedia articles on both physics and math are intra-
>> collection links recreated?

Right now, all bundles are independent.  We need to move towards a model
where you can point to things in other bundles, perhaps with a notion of 
namespaces.  A link out to more information could take you to a local 
bundle if it exists, or try to find it online of you are connected, or 
otherwise indicate that more information isn't available.

> Re: #4:  Maybe we should simply allow right click lookup of all
> words/phrases in a wiki database?  If the content isn't available, maybe a
> link to get the appropriate wiki slice or  website.  This also might be an
> opportunity to pick the brain of Danny over at veropedia, as they seem to be
> doing some live relinking of inter-wiki/external-wiki as new content becomes
> available.

This is more speicfic than solving the general "links between collections" 
problem -- and a good idea.  Answers.com has done an excellent job of 
implementing a tool like this for the desktop; perhaps we can look to them 
for advice.  And Linterweb, who is helping us consider search solutions, 
has a similar sort of "one keyword, many sources of information" interface 
for their wikiwix search engine -- this is just another sort of 
Sugar-embedded searching.  [[keyword lookup]] could use some love.

SJ